The popular band fined $ 36,000 to perform songs that glorify the Mexican drug gangs

The authorities in the northern city of Chihuwa announced on Wednesday that the famous Mexican band was fined with more than $ 36,000 to perform its glorification songs.

In the performance of Los Tucanes de Tijuana on Saturday, nearly a third of their songs were “NARCOCORRIDO“The magic of drug dealers, according to the city official Pedro Oliva.

“Glorious songs or have been afflicted with illegal business perpetrators,” Oliva said in a television interview.

Los Tukannis was prevented from performing in their hometown of Tijuana from 2008 to 2023 due to the alleged screaming to two drug dealers during a concert.

Several states all over the country have imposed restrictions on the controversial sub -type of regional music, which grows rapidly, even outside the borders of Mexico. In April, the ban Lost riots During a concert after a singer refused to perform some of his most popular songs.

Paiso Blauma, who mixed the ice cream with rap and hip hop music, was the seventh most accurate artist in the world in 2024, according to Spotify.

President Claudia Shinbom rejected the idea of ​​banning “Narcocorridos”, preferring to launch a musical competition “for peace and against addiction” to counter the impact of drug culture among young people.

Two months ago, the United States canceled Los Alexres Del Barranco’s visas for the show Pictures of the required drug head During a concert.

“I am strongly believed in freedom of expression, but this does not mean that the expression must be free from the consequences,” US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau He said at that time. “The last thing we need is a welcome mat for people who hurt criminals and terrorists.”

At the end of May, members of Grupo Firme Romance In the United States, saying that their visas were under the “administrative review” by the embassy.

Musicians in Mexico are sometimes busy with the violence of Cartel themselves. Last month, The bodies of five Mexican musicians From Grupo Fugitivo, it was found in Renosa along the Texas border. At least nine members were arrested, at least nine members Drugs and weapons were seized With regard to killing.

In January of this year, a small plane shot down by leaflets in the northwest city threatening about 20 musicians and influential artists of alleged trading with the war warring faction from Cartel Sinaloa Drug Cartel.

In 2018, armed men kidnapped two members of the “Los Norteños de Río Bravo” music group, which was later found on the federal highway linking Renosa Brio Bravo, Tamolibas.

In 2013, 17 musicians of the Kombo Kolombia collection were executed by the alleged Cartel members in the northeastern Nuevo Leon state, claiming that there is a competing gang link.